Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Adriana I Gordillo

612-625-5858

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • 19th & 20th century Hispanic American Literature
  • Fantastic & Magical Realism Literature
  • Gothic and Hispanic American Baroque
  • Postcolonial Approaches to Literary and Cultural Texts
  • Literary Theory and Cultural Studies

Educational Background

  • Ph.D Candidate: Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2006-present.
  • M.A.: Spanish Literature, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.
  • B.A.: History, Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia, 2003.

Publications

  • Gordillo, Adriana Isabel. "La poesía y el mal: Un recorrido por la obra de Yolanda Pantin." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies In print
  • Gordillo, Adriana Isabel. "La novela como elemento de representación y difusión de la imagen de la mujer centroamericana durante el siglo XX." ISTMO Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos No. 11, Jul-dic (2005): Link
  • Gordillo, Adriana Isabel. "La ideología en el análisis literario, una aproximación a ‘El Quijote, un Nuevo sentido de la aventura’, de Estanislao Zuleta." Pensamiento y Formación 2 (2004): 150-155.
  • Gordillo, Adriana Isabel. "Mito y Archivo. Una teoría de la narrativa Latinoamericana, por Roberto González Echevarría." Fronteras de la Historia 8 (2003): 297-300.

Professional Activities

  • Graduate Representative for Undergraduates Committee, 2008-2009
  • Conference Co-Chair. 26th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 11, 2006.

Awards

  • Summer CLA Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP), Summer 2008

Courses Taught

  • SPAN 3222 Discourses of Modern and Contemporary Latin America
  • SPAN 3512 Modern Latin America
  • SPAN 3015 Spanish Composition and Communication
  • SPAN 3105W Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
  • SPAN 1003 Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 1022 Beginning Spanish
  • SPAN 1004 Intermediate Spanish
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